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High drop-out and lower literacy rates among lower-caste populations have rather simplistically been characterized as the natural consequences of poverty and underdevelopment. Though these rates are partly attributable to the need for low-caste children to supplement their family wages through labor, more insidious and less well-documented is the discriminatory and abusive treatment faced by low-caste children who attempt to attend school, at the hands of their teachers and fellow students.Over fifty years since India's constitutional promise of free, compulsory, primary education for all children up to the age of fourteen-with special care and consideration to be given to promote the educational progress of scheduled castes-illiteracy still plagues almost two-thirds of the Dalit population as compared to about one-half of the general population. The literacy gap between Dalits and the rest of the population fell a scant 0.39 percent between 1961 and 1991. Most of the government sc...

India's caste system is perhaps the world's longest surviving social hierarchy. A defining feature of Hinduism, caste encompasses a complex ordering of social groups on the basis of ritual purity. A person is considered a member of the caste into which he or she is born and remains within that caste until death, although the particular ranking of that caste may vary among regions and over time. Differences in status are traditionally justified by the religious doctrine of karma, a belief that one's place in life is determined by one's deeds in previous lifetimes. Traditional scholarship has described this more than 2,000-year-old system within the context of the four principal varnas, or large caste categories. In order of precedence these are the Brahmins (priests and teachers), the Ksyatriyas (rulers and soldiers), the Vaisyas (merchants and traders), and the Shudras (laborers and artisans). A fifth category falls outside the varna system and consists of those known a...

The Govt of India should make the following amendments or changes to the existing law :: 1. MLA should be a graduate 2. MP should be a PG 3. Cabinet Ministers must posses a relavent degree as per thier Portfolio's (eg : Degree in Law for a Law Minister) 4. Retirement age for these people also.When a healthy person who attained 58years of age has to retire so are these people. Since there Experience is an asset they can be a part of Reforms Council and can advice the next successors. All the above candidates must and should posses 1. should be aware of the socio-economic position of there constituency. 2. Communicative (English should be made manditary, if not how can they speak with foriegn delegates and investors.. Its gives lot of confidence to the investors if the Minister is sound at communication ..it assures of more investments). 3. No Criminal Track Record.

UNITED DISTRICTS OF AP ---- A better Governance Model ( A Small Preview) I would suggest the policy makers to think beyond and leave the conventional way of goverance.One should change the goveranace as per the present situation.One shld understand that USA the world numero uno has attained that Top slot because of there goveranance style. Intellectuals from every district should be selected from various backgrounds and should make a Seperate Five year planning for their respective districts . They should make short term and long term developement projects keeping the economy to grow and for larger interest of people.Their should be a Periodical Review of the Policy-making.Laws and acts must be changed ..stringent laws should be made . If the Govt of India can amend the law and make it compulsory that every MLA should be a graduate ,MP should be a PG, and the so called Cabniter Ministers must posses a relavent degree as per there Portfolio's and also their should be Retirement age ...